Commentary
Ford Tests Lighting For Autonomous Vehicles To Communicate With Pedestrians
- by Chuck Martin , Staff Writer, February 6, 2019
Ford is working on new ways for cars to visually communicate with pedestrians.
In normal driving, hand gestures, head nods and even thumbs-up signals can be used for drivers, pedestrians and even cyclists to know what the other driver is doing.
However, in planning for a future when some cars …
Chuck Martin is Editor of the AI & IoT Daily at MediaPost and writes the daily Connected Thinking column. He is a NY Times Business bestselling author and his latest book is “Digital Transformation 3.0” (The New Business-to-Consumer Connections of The Internet of Things.) He is CEO of Net Future Institute and a frequent keynote speaker internationally. Follow him on Twitter @chuckmartin and contact him at Chuck@MediaPost.com.
It appears to me that the primary goal of Auto-tonomous cars is to find ways to solve all of the new problems they create, that we have never had to deal with before.
Hey FORD, how much does this add to the price of your 2021 model cars?